The Real McCoy

Karen McCoy has spent six years in prison for bank robbery and leaves determined to live honestly and reconnect with her young son. That plan collapses when the boy is taken and she is pressured into pulling off one more job. A small-time thief, J.T. Barker, becomes her partner as she works out how to handle the people forcing her back into crime.

The film is a 1993 Universal Pictures release directed by Russell Mulcahy, the sixth of the fourteen features he directed and the one between Blue Ice and The Shadow. William Davies wrote the screenplay, and Martin Bregman, Willi Bär and Michael Bregman produced. Kim Basinger plays Karen, with Val Kilmer as Barker, Terence Stamp as Jack Schmidt, and Gailard Sartain and Raynor Scheine among the credited cast of twenty-three.

Made for about 24 million dollars, the film returned roughly 6 million worldwide, a commercial result well below its cost. On IMDb it holds 5.5 out of 10 from around 10,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.7 out of 10 from 272 votes, with a critics' rating of 4.4 out of 10 from 16 reviews. Those figures place the critics' score below the audience scores.